Machine foe shaping boot and shoe counters



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No. 305,427. Petented Sept. 23, 18184.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 305,427, dated September 23, 1884.

Application filed November 27, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it inlay concern.-

Be it known that I, LOUIS COTE, of St. Hyacinthe, in the county of St. Hyacinthe, Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Maehinery for Shaping Boot and Shoe Counters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention has reference to an improved process and machinery for forming counters, and is, in fact, further improvements 011 the process and machine for which Letters Patent of the United States were granted to me June 19, A. D. 1883, under No. 279,717.

In the drawings hereunto annexed similar letters of reference indicate like parts. The said letters of reference will also be made to agree with the letters of reference used in the specification and drawings of said Patent No. 279, 717 in so far as the parts of the two machines are alike or substantially the same, because my present invention consists in certain additions and changes to, my said patented invention.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of part of a Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the machine shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section of cylindrical former. Fig. 4 represents the counter as first cut and corrugated. Fig. 5 represents the counter as secondly acted upon by the cylindrical former. Fig. 6 represents the counter as thirdly actedupon by the former D. Fig. 7 represents the counter as applied to a last. Fig. 8 is given to illustrate more clearly a difficulty overcome by my present invention.

' I will, in the first place, explain how far the machine embodying my present invention agrees with the machine shown in my said patented invention.

Letter A is the front part of a frame; B, the driving-shaft; O, the shaft upon which the former D is secured. E is a mold. These parts are all substantially similar to those referred to by the same letters of reference in my said patented invention. The frame Ais, however, very much modified to suit the changes hereinafter mentioned. It is provided with bearings (0 to carry a shaft, b. It is also provided with two slots, 0 O, instead of one, as in my said patent. The shaft B is carried-in bearings d. I would here remark that in Fig. 1 only one set of bearings, being the front bearings, for the shaft are delineated or shown but if the frame had been delineated in full the drawings would show a second corresponding set of bearings-two to each shaftthe same as shown in my said patent, also a driving-pulley on the shaft B. In the present drawings the socket and means by which the mold E is held in place and adjusted, &c., are only partly shown, these having been fully shown and described in my aforesaid patent. The socket L, rod i, wheel 1', and nut K are, however, shown. In the slot 0 a socket, 6 is secured in the same manner as the socket L, carrying a mold, f similar to the mold E, but having a recess, h, of somewhat less than a semi-cylinder, as shown by the dotted line g". (See Fig. 2.) This recess h is extended by an enlargement, 2', being a concavity the form of a quarter of a sphere. The extent of this is shown by the dotted line 76 On the end of the shaft b is secured a cylindrical former, 1', arranged so that when the two are inplaee, as shown, a small space is formed between them. This space is made a little larger on the under side by chamfering off the mold at 'm, to enable the counter to be entered more readily. The corner or end of the former Z will be moreor .less rounded off, as shown at a in Fig. 3. On

the driving-shaft B a pinion, 0, is secured, gearing with the wheel 1), secured on the shaft 0, (carried in bearings A,) which wheel 19 gears with an equal wheel, g secured on the shaft b carried in bearings a I will now describe the manner of operating with the machine above described, and in doing so will set forth my improved process.

The material to be formed into counters is first cut to shape, and corrugated or not, as

desired, as shown isometrically in Fig. 4. It is then fed to the former Z", being entered at the under side. This bends it to the configuration of part of a flanged cylinder, shown isometrically in Fig. 5 and sectionally in Fig. 3tl1at is to say, it turns the corrugated part into a flange, g, by forming a bend in it at h. The counter is then passed to and acted upon by the former D, which forms it into a portion of the'periphery or surface of a spheroid, as shown in Fig. 6. The counter formed as just described is 110w ready to be used with ward in a measure taken out, as above described for my present invention, the gatherthe upper of a boot or shoe on the last.

Now, when the counter is brought to the configuration shown in Fig. 6 without having been acted upon by the former Z very great difficulty is experienced in getting the part forming g to sit down upon the 1ast,'as

V flange before putting the counter into the boot or shoe, to enable the lining to be got at to adjust andgather it equally around the heel.

This saidstraightening of the counter by the operator does considerable damage to it.

When the bend h is first made and after-.

ing of the lining & can be properly done without any difficulty, as also the after turning down of the flange upon the last.

What I claim, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. The combination of the mold f having recess k andextension of recess '5 as described, with a former, Z constructed and operated, substantially'as described, to form heel-stiffeners, as shown and described.

2. The combination of the mold f and former Z, constructed as described, with the mold E and former D, constructed as described, the whole substantially as described, to form heel-stifl'eners, as shown and described. r

v LOUIS COTE.

Witnesses OHARLEs G. G. SrMPsoN, I. NAULT. 

